Yan Chihuo bowed and said, "With Your Highness's strength, if you search Yin-Yang Rakshasa's soul, you will surely learn everything. And if Yin-Yang Rakshasa has no guilty secret in his heart, he will not resist Your Highness's soul search. That way, he will suffer no harm. In other words, if Your Highness's soul search affects him at all, it proves that he has a guilty conscience!"
Yin-Yang Rakshasa froze. He had never expected Yan Chihuo to propose such a method. Soul searching was a spell that cultivators and ghosts at the Tribulation Stage and above could employ, but after it was cast, the subject could suffer anything from having their soul scattered to becoming an idiot.
Yet there were exceptions to everything. Once one's cultivation reached the Spirit Cultivation Stage, when casting a spell upon a ghost or cultivator three major realms below oneself, if the subject was willing and did not resist, and the caster proceeded with care rather than deliberately injuring the other's soul, the subject would come to no harm.
Though everyone knew of this method, almost no one had ever used it. For one thing, everyone had secrets of their own that they did not wish others to know. For another, using this method required the caster and the subject to be extremely close, and the caster would still fear harming the other through a moment of carelessness.
Yin-Yang Rakshasa was struck speechless. Heaven's End King said, "Double-Eyed, this method is too risky. Yin-Yang Rakshasa's ancestors bled and died for me. If I make one mistake and injure him, I would be letting down his ancestors—my utterly loyal subordinates."
Yan Chihuo was startled. He had not expected Heaven's End King to say such a thing. In his eyes, Heaven's End King was sinister and vicious, not